NevadaMOGuy,
I'm leaning toward the 3200 thinking I can take care of most of my needs on the 5 acres and pick up some side work and put my young lazy boys to work a little!
I currently own a
BX23. I've had it since 2004 and I've put 612 hours on it. I put in a driveway (had to dig down a foot and a half or so), dug up some stumps, up to 8 inches or so even the fresh ones come out relatively easy. We also had a large pine tree (like 2ft diameter trunk type large) cut down - and I used the backhoe, and a chainsaw - and an axe - to get that sucker out. It took me a few days of going at it for a couple of hourse each night to finally remove the whole thing. I've moved probably a few hundred yards of dirt with it too - and I've moved some pretty impressive sized rocks.
This was all on a 1/2 acre suburban lot.
After 8 years (actually I wished for a bigger tractor years ago) - I'm getting a
B3200, with the backhoe. I still have a bunch of projects I want to get done - and I'm getting older and I would like to get stuff done faster instead of hacking away at it with the BX. If you've got 2.5 acres worth of stumps to clear - and you want to try doing it yourself - i would go for the biggest hoe you can afford. A larger mowing deck (72in vs 60in) - will cut down your grass 20% faster. You will be able to lift bigger rocks, dig bugger stumps, haul more stuff in the bucket, etc.
And last but not least: you will have a wider range of adaptability with the larger tractor (
B3200). You can get a quick attach option on the FEL to put other accessories on. You can plumb in auxiliary hydraulics easier (there's extra ports already provided - the BX doesn't have this). You will have more ground clearance, the ability to pull larger implements, the ability to use true Cat1 implements - instead of the "almost" Cat1 implements the sub-compact tractors use.
If you've got a total of 5 acres - I would definitely get the
B3200. Especially if the affordability is not an issue.
The only things I can think of where the BX might have advantages over the B is in mowing (BX abuses the turf a lot less) - and in manueverability.
